April 12, 2024
1927 Pharmacy & Apothecary History 4000-yr LORE of MEDICINE Alchemy DRUG STORES
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Just one of inkFrog's Creations Description: From Hippocrates to the neighborhood drug store of the Roaring Twenties. This fascinating book takes us from the oldest known pharmaceutical works written on papyrus in the 16th century B.C. to the early 1920's when the book was written. Each chapter describes the medicines offered to mankind during the individual eras and centuries.......Ancient Pharmacy, The Greek Period, Medieval Pharmacy and Alchemy, and then begins with the 15th century AD just after the Medieval era and continues with each century up through the early 1900's. ~~~~~~~~~ From the Front end flap: "A fascinating story this, told with a wealth of detail and a profusion of illustrations which entrap the attention of anyone who opens it. From herbs and powders, crushed bones and fly specks, astrology and magic, to scientific compounds of today, from the priests of the Pharoahs to the American Pharmaceutical Association of the present, this authentic book by the Dean of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy tells the whole enthralling story." "That friendly, service-giving shop. your neighborhood pharmacy---how many of us have ever thought of the traditions, the romance, or the history behind it. The progressive business man, your druggist, who compounds faithfully your doctor's prescriptions and with sincerity recommends
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